How can i make explosives

Indicators and warnings of homemade explosives Be vigilant and look for signs of children and young adults manufacturing homemade explosive devices. Secretive, unexplained or change in behaviour unexplained use of hand tools and electrical equipment unexplained expenditure of pocket money interest in making things from a combination of chemicals, hardware, electrical items and sources of ignition secret bags or backpacks.

Unexplained sporting items tennis, golf and ping pong balls used to hold chemical mixtures protective equipment such as gloves and padding. Substances and chemicals pulling apart large quantities of party poppers, sparklers or caps, accessing explosive mechanisms acquiring and mixing of house hold chemicals, pool cleaning chemicals or fuels.

Unusual items which can be used to contain mixed chemicals collection of metal and plastic pipes mixing equipment glassware, plastic containers or wooden mixing instruments electrical and packing tape different types of hobby material e.

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Marginal note: Where provincial inquiry provided. Marginal note: Certificate of Minister as evidence. Marginal note: False information or application. Under the second criterion, past usage of a precursor was taken as an indicator of its continued potential to be applied in IEDs in the present and future. Some precursor chemicals have been consistently used in IEDs across the world for many decades, while others have seen only brief use by one isolated terrorist group or individual, only to quickly disappear from malicious use.

Under the third criterion, a precursor chemical merits greater priority if it is independent, that is, if the precursor chemical plays an essential part in the synthesis of an explosive material. To synthesize urea nitrate, the precursor chemicals urea and nitric acid are both required; thus, urea nitrate production could be blocked in the absence of either. Of the two, urea is much more commonly available than nitric acid, and the only explosive it can be used to produce is urea nitrate.

In contrast, nitric acid can be used to synthesize a variety of other explosive materials. Thus, in this situation, urea would be categorized as dependent D on nitric acid, while nitric acid would be judged independent I. The committee assigned each chemical either a higher or lower priority for each criterion. Aspects discussed earlier, such as the safety and commonality of the chemicals, were considered for this analysis i.

For the criterion of historical usage, chemicals previously used to produce explosives Y were assigned higher priority, and those whose usage was either extremely rare or largely theoretical N were assigned lower priority.

Ratings for this criterion introduced an element of professional judgment. Every chemical on the list had been used in a bombing or in IED production in some capacity at least once.

Ratings were made in a conservative fashion when possible, with some chemicals that had been used by single groups, under very limiting circumstances, receiving a lower priority rating.

In some cases, chemicals that had limited past usage were given a higher priority rating due to their versatility and potential for explosives production. For the third criterion, chemicals judged independent in syntheses I were assigned a higher priority, and those judged dependent D were assigned a lower.

The committee sorted the chemicals into three groups based on whether they met the conditions of the higher priority for one, two, or three criteria. The committee placed chemicals that met the conditions of a higher priority for three criteria in Group A; for two criteria in Group B; and for one criterion in Group C.

The final evaluation is provided in Table Coincidently, the precursor chemicals sorted into three groups of almost equal size. In this study, the committee chose to conduct an in-depth examination of the Group A precursor chemicals. UAN is considered a relatively new product with limited geographical distribution, but commercially available. There is a well-documented history of explosives production from analogous urea-nitrate salt solutions used in Iraq.

While UAN has not been used historically to produce explosives, the ease of producing various explosives from nitrating urea solutions, as seen in Iraq, supports the notion of UAN as a future threat and justifies its inclusion in Group A. There is an additional caveat for certain precursor chemicals insofar as they come in a diverse range of concentrations when contained in commercial products or bulk mixtures. While some control strategies specify concentration thresholds see Chapters 3 and 4 , the lack of a scientific consensus on what those thresholds are precluded the committee from including concentration thresholds in the prioritized table Table Looking at the trend in Table , more bombing incidents are reporting smaller charge mass sizes, consistent with PBIEDs.

Every chemical in Table is viewed as a viable precursor chemical and a viable threat, whether it has been sorted into Group A, B, or C. Group ranking is. Continuous reevaluation of the precursors is encouraged by the committee, as some of the rankings may change over time with an evolving threat environment. The committee concentrated its efforts on Group A chemicals when examining the supply chains and existing controls, both discussed in Chapter 3.

Improvised explosive devices IEDs are a type of unconventional explosive weapon that can be deployed in a variety of ways, and can cause loss of life, injury, and property damage in both military and civilian environments. Terrorists, violent extremists, and criminals often choose IEDs because the ingredients, components, and instructions required to make IEDs are highly accessible. In many cases, precursor chemicals enable this criminal use of IEDs because they are used in the manufacture of homemade explosives HMEs , which are often used as a component of IEDs.

Many precursor chemicals are frequently used in industrial manufacturing and may be available as commercial products for personal use. Guides for making HMEs and instructions for constructing IEDs are widely available and can be easily found on the internet. Other countries restrict access to precursor chemicals in an effort to reduce the opportunity for HMEs to be used in IEDs. Restricting access to precursor chemicals might contribute to reducing the threat of IED attacks and in turn prevent potentially devastating bombings, save lives, and reduce financial impacts.

Reducing the Threat of Improvised Explosive Device Attacks by Restricting Access to Explosive Precursor Chemicals prioritizes precursor chemicals that can be used to make HMEs and analyzes the movement of those chemicals through United States commercial supply chains and identifies potential vulnerabilities.

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